It is a living story, subtle and imaginative, teeming with memorable characters, many of them historical. This essential guide brings together classic yoga exercises and stretching training, and presents a programme that can be used for improving flexibility, strength and balance. By controlling body position and learning how to harmonize important physical and mental abilities, anyone (regardless of size, strength or weight) can fend off attacks using this sophisticated martial art. Using a very stable stance, muscular power is built up slowly in many movements, instantaneously in others, leading to a keen sense of timing for continuous attacks. For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture-a lucid epigrammatic text that reveals as much about human psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy.

What makes a great business book is that it is a book that helps you find a better version of yourself.The Essential Karate book contains 200 diagrams mapping out moves, 300 color photographs, and a DVD, making it a comprehensive general karate reference for Western audiences. Minford opens with a lively, learned introduction in which he explores the life and times of Sun-tzu, looks at The Art of War in the context of the turbulent Warring States period, and discusses how best to read and understand the work today. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it's all about. Good thing their sister has been training every day to master some serious karate moves that save the day.

The clear text also outlines the rules and self-discipline of the sport and discusses diet and staying fit.Not only does it show the forms and kata, but there is included the history of Shorin Ryu and its founders. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. But I reckon it would only be of limited (niche) interest and might attract an audience of… two, if that.

It comprises unpublished writings from the years before his death in 1957, together with simplified kata - sequences of movements - synthesized by Funakoshi from the traditional Okinawa Karate-do kata, for beginners. Gichin Funakoshi is a legendary figure and the founder of Shotokan karate, the most popular style of Japanese karate, with millions of practitioners worldwide.I am a blue-belt (3rd belt) Kiokushin karate student and I found this book helpful in learning a lot about everything from the history of karate, to its core moves, strategies, terminology, and much more. The techniques in Bassai Sho, using sword hand, ridge hand and tiger mouth, make good defenses against stick attacks. Each chapter contains photographs of an instructor of the Association executing a certain technique. There are many martial arts, all differing in their approach to fighting, but there are few that deal with all the many aspects of fighting. There follows Minford's translation of the core text itself in two different formats-first, the unadorned thirteen chapters of the original work and then the same text reprinted with extensive running commentary by classical Chinese scholars as well as Minford himself.